New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-13
4 CENTURY OF COLLEGE LIFE
CoLUMBIVs GREAT CELEBRATION.

A1thouah Columbia College is IN reality more tnsn
enc hundred years DID, having been started l7o4
Htnss COLLEGE, the trustees will celebrate the cencn
.ial Of the institution - Columbia College To-Day
The programme of the exercises In the MeroPoh'~h
Opera House was printed in The TRIBUNE last week
Tuesday, 1t includes introductory ADDRESS W suo
grand marshal, Stewart L. Woodforo' Grass o,a
An GRAFTON by Frederic R. Coudert, class OF lsoo,
Easter hymn ladies' chorus iancientl poem py the
p.v Dr. George Lansing Taylor, class OF 1Sc1, and
eonferring Of degrees by President Barnard.
The music will DO rendered by the New-York
Orstorio Society," conducted by MT: D~mrosch' accom-
va.ied bv q large orchestra. The parquet and the
dreas circle will be held for the alumni an their fam
flies Seats will be assigned on the stage to invited
ruests and delegates from other institutions ana Ior
fne trustees and faculties of the college The boxes
iIl he reserved tor the families of the trustees and
faculties. while all remaining seats Will oe entirety
free MANY prominent educators and professionals
men signifed their acceptance OF the 1nv"a1on
TO be present. Among them are James husseii Lowell
Uu,h McCuIloch George Bancroft, ex-fresldeht
white of Cornell President Dwight OF Yale; fresi-
dent McCosb of PriucetOL President Seelye, OF AM
herst; President Alice E. Freeman, OF WeIesiey
Judees Andrews, kapallo, Rugcr and Earle, OF the
Now-York Court OF Appeals frendent AIgel', VI
Niebpsn University President Gates, OF Rutgers !;
Cenators Evarts and niscock. and Mayor Hewitt In
the evening reception will be given by the president
faculty and alumni, in the great hall OF the horaiy
and the college buildings will be Illuminated through
ont While visitors will be at liberty to inspect AL the
10 all the alumni whose addresses are known,
70 be present the OCCASION and 1t expected that
they will be in large force.
Yesterday morning a meeting of the marshals APP
pojnted from the different schools was held In me
Aca, Office the formation and line OF parade ior
TO-DAY was announced to them as 1t was puoIsned III
THE TRIBUNE yesterday The formation VIII 2e as
folio "a; Police Cappas Band alumni by classes, Law
schovi. Medical School, undergraduates, by classes
first the class of 81 Arts then 81 Nine; 80
A. s %ni lastly 20 &c. Mines: The s students in the
School of Arts will wear mortar-boards ana those IN
the School of Mines miners caps The departments
of graduate ctiOn and political science Will DO
sbsorbed ia the other departments. The procession,
composed of over 200 alumni students sixteen hies
'front.' starting from the college al vio T a T 20
At. TO Broadway, to the Metropolitan Opera House.
The exercises there will begin at 4 o'clock -,
a.. pS,a romuds With the NewYork nine aud in the
evening Easter fete will he held in McGregors nan
in Fit, -nnth-st at which blue aud white SIX pan
ucr will be voted to the favOrite class crew. AL DAY
yeseray preparations being made at the college
Tor the celebration to-day. In the library the study
tables and movable electric lights were tsmoSeH' anu
pairing the reception this evening while the walls
were ornamented with banners and flags comemmor-
alive OF Columbias victories over other colleges oota
on land and water In the superintendent office
badges and tickets of admission wee still given out
while the janors With their ASSISTANTS were ousy IN
Hamilton Hall. making them ready tor the inspection
OF visitors ,oo S.,oo, =, .r.. a.. -. srs,
annual dinner at Mazzetts last night The president
Herbert Nape sat at the head OF the table and acted
as POSTMASTER for the following toasts ~o9lumoa
SOur Crew." Martin 7. Bogert, Toe Present Hour"
William b. Southland; sour Rush" Henry A. Glider,
sleeve r Our Future Walter casyn ~is rsna b.
the historian Denny Brereon, and the poem was de-
livered by Thornton b. Pen6eld Among t, the I'M
Brauns, aud "The Prudence OF Silence" by O. n
Jacoby. The music was given by the Freshman Giee
Club with g. W. Whttemore as chorister.
Roundsman Saul issued parade permit yesterday
to a committee OF the students tor parade 10 morrow
evening, when the students will have bonfire and
fireworks the campus The stnde nts will appear in
white hats and gowns, and with torches will parade
starting the college about 10 o'clock and march
ing down MadisOnaye. to Ihrty-fourth-sn 10 ruth
ave. to Fifty ninth-st and back to the college. Upon
the gowns will be appropriate figures designating the
different schools. those OF the Medical Department
being skull and cross-bones.
number OF criticisms have been made upon the
action OF the trustees in selecting Aprh 10 Ioo as
the day which to celebrate Coiumbia's one-hun-
dredth anniversary 1t being claimed that more SUIT
able date would have been in 1884. In speaking OF
ths yesterday at the college Professor Howard D. Van
ain i776 the old college practically given up,
and the college buildings were converted into hos
pital for the American soldiers Then III ,o4 the
Legislature of the State of New-YOrk passed an act
creating u body regents over the college and also
ovei ali pnblc institutions of learning in tue State at
ths time the change OF name from M asr ON s
H. 1857 the Legislature repealed this act and passed
another revising and confirming the Royal charter
granted in 1874 TO Kings College. and decreeing that
the college should be called bencetorth Columbia, aud
it il this act whose one hundredth anniversary we
celebrate"
The TRIBUNE on February IA gave a sketch OF
Columbia College, which began under the name OF
Kings College and slowly grew until the War OF the
Rex oution which almost crushed the youthful though
rising institution The buildings which were then IN
campus running from Church-st. to the North River
turned into barracks for the American soldiers
while the president Of the college, the Rev Dr. Myes
Cooper, formerly OF Queens College, Oxford, who was
. strong Tory at, lacked by mob OF his political
opponeats and was obliged to n.y. halfdressed, over
the college fence and hide until he could escape to
England in the English man of-war kinshsher For
She next twelve years the college barely existed. In
1884 the college appointed committee to demand
and receive from the late corporation OF the Kings
College" whatever property had belonged to it, and
act passed in the Legislature granting certain
privileges the college heretofore called Kings Col
1ege for altering the and charter thereof and
erecting university within this State
On May &, 1857, the first meeting OF the trustees OF
Columbia College was held. In the year DR..
William Samuel Johnson the son OF the first president
Of the college, elected the first patriot president
Of the college 1t during his administration that
the medical department was established upon brm
basis by the appointment OF dean OF tie faculty and
several medical professors little than enty
five years ago the college moved to It's present site
ut Madison-ave and Forty ninthst., which had for
merry been occupied oy the Deaf and Dumb Asy lum III
fore. This asylum building still stands between the
handsome Hamilton Hall and the new Library and
Law School Building and is used as an office and
restaurant the upper rooms being meeting rooms for
the different classes in the college.
The last annual report vt President Barnard dstin.
pushes between three distinct periods in the history OF
the colleges the first about century in duration is
called the gymnastc period, being that in which no
studies attempted but those leading 10 the degree
Of bachelor Of arts the second the period OF profes
sonal schools. covering about twenty-five years dur
ing which the union effected with the College OF
Physicians and Surgeons and the Law School and the
School Of Mines were put in operation; the third
the period of university instruction. dates from the
year 1850. The Graduate Department established in
that year promises be in the future the prif cipa
organ usefulness of the institution. The School of
Political Science properly belongs TO this being,
school Of non professional but advanced learning.
The college, properly university, embraces
nominaly seven schools Arts Mines, Law Political
Science, Medicine, and a Graduate Instruction and
been az foliows The Rev. Dr. Samuel johnson. 1854
1893 the Rev. DR.. Myles Cooper 1763.l776 no